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NEWS LOCAL the bars; the beach was closed because of high bacteria counts 37 days in 2015 and 31 days the year before. That works out to about two days a week during the swimming season. “Usually what happens is, if you swim here all the time you’re going to get sick like the first time you go in the water,” said Justin Kopec, who was swimming at Evans Town Park Beach.

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beach more than 30 days last summer because of unhealthy levels of bacteria in the water. But adjacent beaches owned by two popular waterfront bars remained open to patrons because the bars lack permits that require testing of the water and closure when dangerous levels of fecal matter and other bacteria are detected. One of the bars, Turtle Joe’s Sand Bar, appears to be in violation of the state beach code. Whether Mickey Rat’s Beach Club is in violation is open to interpretation. Owner Richie Alberts obtained what he maintains is a waiver in 1987 and again in 2010, but Erie County health officials contend the paperwork they issued “do not constitute waivers.” This much is beyond dispute: Patrons of the two bars are routinely swimming in water that authorities have deemed a public health hazard at a public beach just a stone’s throw away. Lake Erie beaches frequently close after moderate or heavy rains, which can cause sewer overflows and carry runoff into the water containing contaminants that include human and wildlife fecal matter and other pathogens. Swimming in unhealthy water can give people rashes, diarrhea, and upset stomachs. “You can get sick,” said John Finster, a former Erie County public health engineer who retired last year after 16 years. “It could be dangerous.” Finster contends that both establishments should be required to get beach permits and that he made his superiors aware of his concerns in 2009 and again in 2014. His superiors chose to do nothing, he said.

Alberts, the owner of Mickey Rat’s, insists he is on firm legal ground. “I have a letter stating that I conform to the rules as long as I put up the signs stating no lifeguard on duty and no swimming,” he said. The Chautauqua County Health Department has taken a firmer stance with another popular lakefront bar, Sunset Bay Beach Club in Irving. The club is required to have a beach permit, and, as a result, the water is tested at least weekly and the beach is manned by lifeguards. “It meets the definition of a bathing beach: It’s open to the public and there’s a beach there,” said Mark Stow, Chautauqua County’s director of environmental health services.

SWIMMING IN FRONT OF BARS An Investigative Post reporter who visited Mickey Rat’s and Turtle Joe’s on a recent Saturday afternoon witnessed about a dozen boats and jet skis lined up about 10 feet off the shoreline. Boaters and their guests were swimming, playing music, and enjoying the sunny, 86-degree day. Some three dozen adults and children swam in front of the bars. Mickey Rat’s is a summertime institution in Angola, drawing hundreds of customers on the weekends. Its vast beach has volleyball nets and plenty of room to get a tan and swim. Turtle Joe’s has annual events that attract boaters, such as the annual Pirate Raid in July when patrons don pirate costumes and decorate their boats. Customers of Mickey Rat’s are greeted at the beach by a large white sign that state the rules: no coolers, pets, or glass, and no swimming. Similar signs are pinned to fences on both sides of the beach. Those rules are not enforced. An Investigative Post reporter spotted coolers and both people and dogs swimming.

“Each time the answer came back the same, and it was, ‘They don’t need to have permits,’” Finster said.

Lifeguards at two nearby public beaches told an Investigative Post reporter that the bars allow swimming while the public beaches are closed.

Gary Ballowe, the owner of Turtle Joe’s, formerly the South Shore Beach Club, did not return numerous phone calls requesting an interview.

Mickey Rat’s and Turtle Joe’s are clustered off Lakeshore Road in Angola on the north side of Fern Brook, which feeds into the Lake Erie. Evans Town Beach is less than a football field north of

Alberts, the Mickey Rat’s owner, said past attempts at keeping patrons out of the water have failed. “There’s really no way of enforcing it,” he said. “There’s boats that pull up. How do you stop somebody? Stand there and scream at them? It’s not feasible.” In any event, Alberts said he has seen people swim at the public beaches when the county had them closed for high bacteria. “I realize the health risk if they close the public beaches, but I don’t believe they are doing any more than what we are doing,” he said. “If people are going to enter into the water, then they will.” Finster, the retired health engineer, said he was unaware that Mickey Rat’s had any agreement with the Erie County Health Department. At minimum, he said, “I’d think you’d have to show you’re enforcing the no swimming and I haven’t seen any evidence of that. If I was an operator of a place like that, I would close when the public beaches close.” Erie County Health Department officials refused interview requests and would only answer questions by email. The department said it is unaware of any waivers and that the documents Mickey Rat’s has are “more akin to a Memorandum of Understanding that the owner cannot advertise, promote or allow swimming on his property.” “As such, the owner is responsible for not permitting swimming on his property, and would therefore be liable should an accident occur,” the department said in the email. Chautauqua County health officials operate differently. Stow, the county’s director of environmental health services, said the Sunset Bay Beach Club has had a beach permit for decades because of the risk of drowning and potential exposure to unsafe water. If Sunset Bay decided to not renew its permit, he said, “we would expect the owner of that beach to enforce the no swimming. Period.” “We’d be checking up to make sure they weren’t engaging in allowing people to go swim there unprotected.”

STATE LAW “LOOPHOLE” The state bathing beach code requires a beach permit if the owner “openly advertises” swimming or if the premises are used for swimming with the “implied” permission of the owner. The Erie County Health Department said in its email that people entering the water from their boats to get to the club and then returning to their boats to leave may not be considered swimming. “However, other bathing activity would necessitate applying for a permit,” the department wrote in an email. Finster maintains the beach clubs should be required to obtain permits. “This is a gaping loophole in the code, where somebody can slide through, operate or have swimming going on in front of their establishment, while there’s no swimming on a day where water quality is bad at the beach next store,” he said. Dan Telvock is a reporter for Investigative Post, a nonprofit investigative reporting center focused on issues of importance to Buffalo and Western New York. Its partners include The Public, WGRZ TV 2 On Yor Side, WBFO 88.7 FM, and The P Capital Pressroom.

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ECWA’S MISHANDLING OF WATER MAIN BREAKS ARGUES FOR ABOLITION OF THE AGENCY THERE IS A LEGENDARY QUOTE from Will

Rogers: “If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.” The Erie County Water Authority just cannot stop digging. The major water main break that occurred in Amherst on July 20 certainly caused some disruptions. That happens sometimes. Once the leak was discovered, the ECWA’s work crews immediately started to fix it. Service was restored fairly quickly, though the permanent fix took a couple more days. Unfortunately the administration of the ECWA did not perform as admirably as its crews did:

n After the major main break in Amherst on July 20, the ECWA waited hours to put out information, even though thousands of homes and businesses lost water pressure or lost water service altogether. n The agency’s public information system was so unprepared for this emergency that their website and phone systems shut down. n The agency’s PR representative attempted to minimize the failure to communicate, claiming major problems occur infrequently. n The Erie County Health Department assessed the situation and then posted a precautionary advisory to boil water until testing could be completed. n A senior ECWA staffer also suggested that water be boiled as a precaution. n Several days after the event, the ECWA scheduled a teleconference to explain their story. At least some of the robocall notices about that conference went out just an hour before it began. n The chairman of the ECWA, Earl Jann, stated that the Erie County Health Department should not have declared a boilwater advisory. n The agency emphasized the interests of local businesses, which admittedly needed to take extra steps in operations, over the interests and health of up to 250,000 local residents. n The ECWA suggested that the break had occurred because of some digging that National Grid had been doing. National Grid has reported that that is not true. n Jann accused Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz of grand-standing because of the boil advisory. For the agency to leave the public in the dark about the crisis was inexcusable. For the agency to suggest that no boil-water advisory was needed after they had issued their own is silly. For the agency to place public health as secondary to the inconvenience of some businesses shows that their priorities are messed up. For the agency to fail to confess its mistakes, and to turn a serious public issue into a political fight, shows lack of judgment. Erie County Comptroller Stefan Mychajliw also waded into the controversy by posting a statement on Facebook that attacked the Poloncarz administration for issuing the boil-water advisory and questioned ECWA-county communications during the event. The statement closely parallels ECWA’s own statements, which emphasized business interests over the general public. Mychajliw and ECWA PR consultant Michael Caputo are political allies.

WHAT TO DO The ECWA is a public monopoly that is not accountable to anyone. If you live or have a business in their service territory, which is most of Erie County outside of the City of Buffalo, it is a pretty simple proposition: If you want water, the ECWA will sell it to you, at a price they determine. Take it or leave it. That is why the ECWA can pad their payroll with all those high-priced salaries and expensive consultant contracts. Why does any agency with 240

employees need five human resources executives making a collective $527,000 annually? Why do they need multiple administrative types serving overlapping and superfluous responsibilities? One would think that with all that high-priced talent in the ECWA offices that they could handle any crisis professionally. All the more reason to get rid of the agency and roll it into the county government. Assemblyman Sean Ryan and Erie County Legislator Pat Burke have recently indicated that they will review some issues concerning the agency. Burke has scheduled a one-hour information session about the ECWA on Wednesday. The needed improvements are pretty simple:

n File state legislation to shut down the ECWA and transfer the overall management and the service operations staff to the Erie County Public Works Department, and the purchasing and personnel functions to the county departments with the same duties. Let the executive office handle the public relations functions; the comptroller’s department can handle the bookkeeping and borrowing; legal matters can be handled by the county attorney’s office. n After the state legislation is filed, get a home rule message passed to support the legislation. n Pass the legislative bill. n Set up the transition. By the end of 2017 it could all be accomplished. Accountability would rest with the county executive and the county legislature. Water rate-payers would save millions of dollars per year when the high-priced staff and consultants are gone. Although this all seems so simple, nothing much has ever been done about it by anyone in county government. (And yes, I will take my share of responsibility for ignoring the issue when I served as county budget director in the 1990s.) The previous county comptroller, David Shenk, said in his 2012 election campaign that he was conducting an audit of the ECWA. Shenk lost the election, but his office issued an audit of the agency’s personnel procedures on December 31, 2012. Mychajliw also committed to an audit of the ECWA. Mychajliw told WGRZ in April 2013, “It’s not fair and it’s not right that people with just political connections are given these positions. It should be an open and fair process so at least everyone can apply and everyone has a fair shot at them.” No audit was ever issued by Mychajliw’s office about patronage and staffing at the ECWA. Instead, the comptroller conducted an audit of the ECWA’s “compliance with New York State Public Authorities laws and regulations.” The audit was issued on December 22, 2014. What follows is the entire findings section of that audit: In our opinion, ECWA management has taken steps to include the requirements from the foregoing governmental authorities, especially the Public Authorities Act of 2005, including the additions in 2009. No significant matters adversely affecting compliance with applicable laws, rules, or procedures came to our attention, except as disclosed in this report. Our audit was performed for the objectives previously described and would not necessarily disclose all instances of noncompliance with respect to areas not reviewed.

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That’s it. No other audit findings, no staff listings, no numbers. Nothing about the patronage system at the authority. It is not important to attach names to the political hires at the authority. No one there at this time had much to do about creating the mess that is the ECWA. But that does not justify its continued existence. Leadership is required in county hall and in Albany to clean it up. It’s time to move on. Ken Kruly is a former Erie County budget director and former member of the Erie County Fiscal Stability Authority, among other positions in local government. He writes about government and P politics at politicsandstuff.com.

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servancy and Magnolia Events LLC convened an event at the Buffalo Seminary for what the invitation card said, was “our third public input and informational session regarding ‘The Terrace at the Marcy Casino.’ A proposed ala carte [sic] venue for the upstairs and outer terrace.”

During the 20 minutes UB School of Architecture and Planning dean Robert Shibley and Olmsted Conservancy executive director Stephanie Crockatt talked about the evening’s format and how we got here, and what would happen next, a line from Dire Straits’ “Romeo and Juliet” kept running through my head: “Juliet, the dice were loaded from the start.”

This was all planned, he said, in the interest of efficiency and fairness. He then recommended we think about gratitude, grief, and active hope. I won’t try to summarize that here. It was the inspirational part of his statement. He didn’t say, and wouldn’t allow anyone to ask, where “here” was.

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There would be four breakout groups at which questions could be asked: one about a possible advisory group for the Conservancy. (They already have one; it hasn’t been convened since 2011 and it was not consulted about any aspect of this plan.) Another about parking enforcement. Another about security in the park. And the fourth about how Magnolia would function.

THE BOGUS POLLS One of the polls was mounted online and by mail by Magnolia. It said wonderful things about the planned operation and asked something on the order of, “Do you think this is a good thing to do?” As I recall, there was no option to oppose the plan; you could only endorse it or remain silent. The other poll, Crockatt said, included vote cards at the restaurants and bars around town owned by Magnolia’s owners, Jason Davidson and Mike Shatzel. That is, patrons at bars and restaurants they liked were asked if they would like there to be another bar/restaurant operated by the same people. All pollsters know you can get any poll result you want if you select your questions and your respondents with care, as was the case with both of the polls Crockatt talked about. That’s about as good a job of poll-trolling as I know.

PARKING She referred several times to neighbors’ concerns about parking. That issue was cited several times in the press and on public media. It felt pumped out. Nobody I know in the single-family or multiunit houses near the park worries about parking for themselves. All these houses have more than enough parking space for residents. The concern is parking space for ordinary users of the park. Even now, ordinary users are being kept out of public parking spaces on Lincoln Parkway coned off to accommodate customers at Magnolia’s “Hoppy Hour” and “Happy Hour” events. How can this possibly be legal? Why should families using the park or people going to Shakespeare in Delaware Park be blocked from parking on a public street because the spaces have been claimed by a private corporation operating a concession that people under 21 cannot attend? That’s what the parking concern is about.

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Ostensibly, this meeting was set up to do what ____________________________ Crockatt called “a soft reset” of the whole process. They had previously developed and cut the Date _______________________ deal with Magnolia, then had two meetings at MARIA/Y16Y27 ______________________ theIssue: Casino where they talked about what they were going to do and the public was allowed YOU APPROVEand ERRORS WHICHBut AREthe ON public toIFask questions comment. questions and THE comments wouldCANNOT clearly BE have no THIS PROOF, PUBLIC effect the deal, which, from their THE point HELDon RESPONSIBLE. PLEASE EXAMINE ADof view, was very much done.

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(I THIS wrote two MAY previous articles PROOF ONLYPublic BE USED FOR on those meetings, so I won’t go over them here. They PUBLICATION IN THE PUBLIC. are: “The Delaware Park Casino as Profit Center” ( June 15, 2016) and “Undoing Olmsted” ( June 22, 2016).) The Magnolia restaurant/bar operation was set to open by Memorial Day, but there was so much blowback on the process and the unanswered questions that it has been put on hold. At Wednesday’s meeting, the public was indeed invited to voice concerns, but, because of the refusal by Shibley and the Olmsted Conservancy to permit discussion of one key question (none of the four breakout groups permitted it either), this meeting was even more of a sham than the first two. Participants were told their concerns would be logged and considered. Would they influence anything? If yes, how? No one said. And that is why almost everybody left early.

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been directed to making the Conservancy/ Magnolia deal work.

The Conservancy never seems to have asked internally or invited the public to ask: “What kind of facility would best serve the people who use Delaware Park? What would the mothers with kids, the people walking around the lake, the people hanging out in the shade, and all the rest find of most use to them?” The cards with the one-inch box for questions and comments I mentioned earlier also had two questions. One had one box that might be checked: “I would like to be involved with the Olmsted Advocacy Council.” The other question was, “Do you support the concept of an upstairs restaurant service at the Marcy Casino?” It had three boxes: yes, no, and undecided. There were no questions on the order of, “Would you like discussion of what kind of food and drink options might be best for Marcy Casino?” or “Would you prefer to be able to vote on something more than this single proposal from Magnolia?” Questions like that were not solicited or wanted. There was no space for them in the full forum or on the card. “Juliet, the dice were loaded from the start.” The single reason given for this topsy-turvy process is, “The Conservancy needs the money to do its work.” But that is backwards: The park and its ordinary users shouldn’t be put in service to the Conservancy’s budget. If there is a funding problem that forces the Conservancy to abandon its mission, then the question of funding should be confronted, not the question of how to squeak through a deal done in secret.

THE SMALL KITCHEN GAMBIT One public official said the reason he was told this hadn’t been open to public discussion or put out for bid is Magnolia has two years to run on its catering contract and there isn’t room on the Casino’s small kitchen for two food operators. “In that case,” I asked him, “why not wait until Magnolia’s contract is up in two years and then let the public in on it?” “I didn’t hear anyone suggest that,” he said.

OPERATING IN THE DARK The Conservancy gets money from the City, from concessions and from a few other sources. The Public thought to do an article in this series addressing the question of whether or not the City of Buffalo was fulfilling its obligation to the citizens in Buffalo in this regard. Maybe it should be kicking in a good deal more than the $1million it currently provides. The Conservancy has done a superb job maintaining the park and, in so doing, it has raised property values in a large part of the city, thereby increasing the City’s tax revenue. Maybe the Conservancy should get a bigger slice of the revenue it has produced.

COMMENTARY NEWS The Public asked Stephanie Crockatt for three documents we thought necessary to begin working on that article. They contain numbers and other facts we need to know before we can talk to anyone in the Conservancy or in government about policy. The documents were: •

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and the Conservancy’s contract with Magnolia.

Crockatt stonewalled on all three. For the operating budget, she sent us to the Conservancy’s IRS form 990, which is available online. That form shows no line items for income from any concessions; it is, for this inquiry, useless. For the contract with the city, she told us we’d have to file a FOIL request. For the contract with Magnolia, she said she’d have to consult with Magnolia. All of that is nonsense: If you’re a party to a contract, you can show it to anyone you like, unless the contract contains clauses saying it must be kept secret. That would raise other questions, like: Why would an organization like the Olmsted Conservancy need secret contracts with a restaurant/bar owner concerning the use of a building owned by the public? Why should a newspaper have to file a FOIL request for a document that had (presumably) been approved by the Buffalo Common Council?

ENEMIES? On the way to the meeting room at Buffalo Seminary, I saw an Olmsted Conservancy trustee I know well. I said to him, “We’ve been trying to see some Olmsted Conservancy financial documents for a Public article, but your executive director is stonewalling us.”

I was certain he’d say something like, “It’s probably a misunderstanding. Let me talk to her. I’m sure we can help.” That wasn’t what he said. What he said was, “Of course. Why would she show them to you? You’re the enemy.” “The press is your enemy?” I said. “Yes,” he said.

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FF = FIRST FRIDAY 640 Gallery (640 Ridge Road, Lackawanna, NY 14218, 716-823-5124): Judi Witt, show on view through Aug 12. Opening reception Fri Jul 29, 6-8pm. MonFri 10am-4pm. FF Albright-Knox Art Gallery(1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 882-8700, albrightknox.org): Shade: Mark Crawford and Clyfford Still, through Oct 2. Operation Sunshine: Joan Linder, Jul 9 through Oct 30. Marie Lorenz: Ezekia, through Sep 11. Defining Sculpture, works from the museum’s collection on view through Oct 9. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm, open late First Fridays (free) until 10pm. FF Art Dialogue Gallery (5 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14209 wnyag.com): Dorothy Markert: The Clarice Cliff Series. On view through Sep 2. Tue-Fri 11am5pm, Sat 11am-3pm.

The exhibit commemorates several Buffalo Society of Artists 1920s and ’30s versions of the Beaux Arts Ball put on by the École des Beaux Arts in Paris, France, annually in the spring. Artists and upper crust get to drink and dance and be outrageous together. Costumes of other times and places or literary figures or the like were encouraged—suggested and sometimes as it happened suggestive—but not mandatory at the local version as at the Paris event. The notably conservative Levy—in his artistic tastes anyway—was head of the BSA at the time. On one occasion he and Mrs. Levy dressed as Dante and Beatrice. Whereas the young female artist’s model selected as “Ideal Model of Buffalo” was shown in a Buffalo Evening News photo in a costume of such generally abbreviated character—abbreviated in several areas, that is—that the photo would not have seen print light of day in the News of that era under any other coverage rubric than Society, with a capital S. Society folk got special coverage and special license, apparently.

Art 247 (247 Market Street, Lockport, NY 14094, theart247.com) Exploring the Puppet World, through Aug 28 Wed-Fri, 10am-5pm, Sat & Sun 11am5pm. FF Artists Group Gallery (Western New York Artists Group) (1 Linwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14209, 716-8852251, wnyag.com): Betty Pitts Foster, Robert Then, Sean Witucki. Opening reception Fri Aug 5, 7:309pm. On veiw through Sep 2. Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. FF Ashker’s on Elmwood (1002 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14222, 716-886 -2233, ashkersbuffalo. com): Opening Aug 1: Group 263: works by Brian Boutin, Kathleen Corff Rogers, John Lloyd, Gethyn Soderman, Rick Steinberg. Opening reception Fri Aug 19, 7-10pm. Mon-Sat 7am-10pm, Sun 9am-5pm. Artpark (450 S 4th St, Lewiston, NY 14092, 716-7549000, artpark.net): Extemporal: works on paper by Bruce Adams. Betty’s Restaurant (370 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 362-0633, bettysbuffalo.com): Unintended Consequences: recent photo collages by J. Tim Ray-

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Among the artworks is one entitled Bal Masque, a large-format painting depicting a costume ball such as a Beaux Arts event. Participants in garb of commedia dell’arte, classical ballet, the court of Louis XIV. A jester in motley and bells, and a tonsured monk fawning before a woman in guise possibly of a courtesan. On a kind of stage set—framed by huge pillars left and right—underscoring the theatrical artificiality of the occasion and the festivities. (Except for the monk and the courtesan. That negotiation seemingly for real.) Another work entitled Untitled (Arriving at the Ball) shows newly arrived couples in a vestibule opening into an inner ballroom with dancing in progress. Viewed from an unusual low-angle perspective—more theatrical effect. Among the Levy romanticized portraits of fragile languorous ladies of leisure are two anomalous works. A portrait of a young woman in slightly disheveled nuance of poverty garb. And a large-format work entitled The Sewing Girls, a kind of group portrait of the women who made the dresses rather than wore them. But the group portrait romanticized as well. Working girls at rows of tables and sewing machines—watched over by a more matronly age operations manager—with an aura overall of a ladies sewing circle more than the sweatshop likely reality. It’s an unusual and interesting exhibit. Curated by Joycelyn Burdette, professor in the Villa Maria Fashion Design and Merchandising Program, and Rich Christian, past president of the BSA and current adjunct instructor in the Villa Art Department. The exhibit runs until August 16. To celebrate its 125th year, the Buffalo Society of Artists will present a Beaux Arts Ball on Saturday, August 6. For tickets and more information, visit bsabeauxartsball.weebly.com. P

mond on view through Sep 18. Tue-Thu, 8am-9pm, Fri 8am-10pm, Sat 9am-10pm, Sun 9am-2pm. Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, NY 14222, thebenjamangallery.com): See Artpark listing. Thu-Sat 11am-5pm. Big Orbit (30d Essex Street, Buffalo, NY 14222, cepagallery.org/about-big-orbit): Autism Services Inc.: BLACK and WHITE, paintings, drawings, sculpture, and mixed-media work by ASI artists, through Sep 11. Opening reception Fri, Aug 5, 8-11pm. FriSun 12-6pm. BT&C Gallery (1250 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, 604-6183, btandcgallery.com): Fri & Sat 12-5pm or by appointment. Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th Floor, 2496 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 833-4450, buffaloartsstudio.org): Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. Buffalo & Erie County Central Library (1 Lafayette Square, Buffalo, NY 14203, 858-8900, buffalolib.org): Celebrating 400 Years of Shakespeare: Reflecting on the Life of the Bard. Milestones on Science: Books That

Shook the World! 35 rare books from the history of science, on second floor. Mon-Sat 8:30am-6:00pm, Sun 12-5pm. Burchfield Penney Art Center (1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 878-6011, burchfieldpenney. org): Blistering Vision, Charles E. Burchfield’s sublime American landscapes through Oct 23. Sequel, through Aug 14, Furniture From the Darwin D, Martin House, Fluidity in Form: Selections from the Dean Spong Collection, on view through Aug 21. Object as Energy Point, Andrew Deutsch through Aug 21. Artists Seen: photographs of contemporary artists by David Moog. The Birthday Party: A Community of Artists, on view through Sep 25. 10am-5pm & Sun 1-5pm. Admission $5-$10, children 10 and under free. Castellani Art Museum (5795 Lewiston Road, Niagara University, NY 14109, 286-8200, castellaniartmuseum.org): Max Collins: Natural Processes, through Sep 11. Buffalo Society of Artists120th Catalogue Exhibition on view through Jul 31. Tue-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm. CEPA (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 8562717, cepagallery.org): Eikoh Hosoe: Revisitations to

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Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat & Mon by appointment. FF Paper Moon Gallery (497 Franklin Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 949-6604): Greg Kuppinger and Brian Dennis, Of Light and Matter, on view through Aug 31. Opening reception Aug 5, 6-9pm. Thu-Sat 115pm, Sun by appointment. FF Parables Gallery & Gifts (1027 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, parablesgalleryandgifts.com): Joe George, NY Photos. On view through Aug 31. Opening reception Fri Aug 5, 6-9pm. Tue-Thu, 11am-6pm, Fri 11am-7pm (11am-9pm on first Fridays), Sat 11am5pm. Queen City Gallery (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 868-8183, queencitygallery.tripod.com): Neil Mahar, David Pierro, Candace Keegan, John Farallo, Chris McGee, Tim Raymond, Eileen Pleasure, Eric Evinczik, Barbara Crocker, Thomas Bittner, Joshua Nickerson, Susan Redenbach, Barbara Lynch Johnt, Mark Brice, Kisha Patterson, Michael Mulley. Tue-Fri 11am-4pm and by appointment. River Gallery and Gifts (83 Webster Street, North Tonawanda, 14120): 2016 Annual Members Exhibit, on view through Aug 26. Wed-Fri 11am4pm, Sat 11am-5pm. Sports Focus Physical Therapy (531 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY, 14202, 332-4838, sportsfocuspt.com): Group show featuring works by Susan Redenback, David Fehrman, Teresa Alessandra, and Heidi Brown on view through Aug 30. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, 6-9pm on first Fridays. Starlight Studio and Art Gallery (340 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, starlightstudio.org): Candy Land: Starlight Studio Artists. Mon-Fri 9-4pm. FF Studio Hart (65 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 536-8337, studiohart.com): Burn the Bridges, photographs by Max Collins. Opening reception Fri Aug 5, 6-9pm. Tue-Fri 11:30am-3:30pm, Sat 12-4pm, and open every First Friday 6-9pm. Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, (716) 884-7172, squeaky.org): A Year From Monday: Recent work by Wenhua Shi, through Sep 3. Tue-Sat, 12-5pm. UB Anderson Gallery (1 Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo, NY 14214, 829-3754, ubartgalleries.org): Cravens World: The Human Aesthetic, on view through Dec 31, 2016. On the Front Lines: Military Veterans at the Art Students League of New York and Cracked Open, paintings by David Schirm, on view through Aug 7. Wed-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm. Villa Maria College Paul William Beltz Family Art Gallery (240 Pine Ridge Terrace, Cheektowaga, NY 14225, 961-1833): Paintings and drawings by Alex O. Levy and Deco period dresses on loan from Ohio State University. On view through Aug 17. Mon-Fri 8am8pm, Sat 10am-5pm. Western New York Book Arts Center (468 Washington Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 438-1430, wnybookarts. org): Annual Members’ Exhibition, through Aug 19. Wed-Sat 12-6pm.

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4 MORE MUST-SEE INFRINGEMENT FESTIVAL EVENTS THURSDAY AUG 4 UGLY SUN Cherokee album Recommended if you like: Beach House, Wild Nothing

From a few Buffalo indie rock veterans comes the new project Ugly Sun, and their debut EP, Cherokee. Released on July 16, Cherokee is a five-song collection of sometimes dreamy, sometimes spacey indie rock music. Highlights include the fuzzy title track, “Cherokee,” and the record’s driving opener, “Mock Me Out.” The three-piece band includes brothers John and Harrison Crook on bass and vocals respectively, and Trey Hollowood on guitar. Cherokee is now available on iTunes and Spotify.

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VARIOUS LOCATIONS & TIMES [INFRINGEMENT] By the time you read this, the 2016 Infringement Festival will be into its second week, and if you’re a glass-half-full kind of guy like me, then you’ll realize that there is still much more infringing to be done. Here we’ve listed some of the more notable events happening this week, but, as always, we encourage you to sift through the Infringement Festival schedule, which can be found in its entirety in last week’s issue of The Public.

LOCUST STREET ART EXPOSÉ Thursday, August 4/ 2PM-7PM Locust Street Art, 138 Locust Street

This all-day event features more than a dozen artists and musicians and takes place at an art space that’s been active for almost 60 years. The Locust Street Art Exposé at the Locust Street Art gallery on the East Side is one of Infringement Festival’s bigger events and features art of all kinds—from music to crafts and visual art, too. Highlights include Scantron, Dope Collective, My Rap Name Is Alex, Bagel Jesus, and more. Stop by the Locust Street Art gallery between 2pm and 7pm on Thursday and you’re bound to see or hear something you’ll enjoy.

INFRINGEMENT FESTIVAL MASQUERADE BALL Friday, August 5 Nietzsche’s, 248 Allen Street

HEAD NORTH “God (Bring It Back)” video Recommended if you like: Local Natives, Cloud Nothings, Arcade Fire

Buffalo indie-pop band Head North returned this week with a slick new music video for their track “God (Bring It Back).” Directed by Buffalo videographer Andy Deluca, the video, which begins with the caption “The Last Living Man Alive,” appears to be a single, unbroken shot featuring a group of dancers expertly nailing some fun dance moves—including some breakdancing and backflips—before rewinding back to the start. The single is a promising taste of the band’s upcoming album The Last Living Man Alive Ever in the History of the World.

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The annual Infringement Festival Masquerade Ball takes place at Nietzsche’s on Friday, August 5. Come for the freaky costumes, stay for the music from Pangea, Sitar with World Groove Loops, Muggle Snuggle, Erica Wolfing—The Ice Dragon, Bleu & Green, Chucks, and Shattered Glass. $5 gets you in the door, $3 with a costume. A companion masquerade party will be happening at Milkie’s at the same time, with music from Autoverse, Grace of Faults, FairLight, the Seasides, and Boudoir Noir, so if you’re already dressed to impress, you might as well hit both.

WEDNESDAY AUG 3 Weeding Through the Differences 4pm WestSide Herbs and Alliums, 251 Vermont St. free

[INFRINGEMENT] Fertility is the theme of this Infringement Festival oddball show and the choice of venues, WestSide Herbs and Alliums—an urban farm located at 251 Vermont Street—couldn’t be more perfect. Weeding Through the Differences will start with an Infringement Festival veteran and organizer, MC Vendetta, laying out some of her infamous verses, followed by a series of acts and activities including a community yarn-bombing of sorts by the Buffalo Yarn Brigade, rap by My Rap Name Is Alex, improv, an appearance by a personified tree in the form of Radical Roots, and some other far-out, organic experimentations. -CP

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Saturday, August 6 / 6pm Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk

In the 1980s a collective of artists, musicians, and students got together to open an underground club in Buffalo, which they called the Pipe Dragon. This underground club located on Ellicott at Huron, where places like Tappo and Big Ditch now call home, was a precursor to alternative venues like Soundlab and the Vault, and for this reason local artists and musicians today still pay homage to the Pipe Dragon. This Saturday, the tradition continues with the fourth annual Pipe Dragon Memorial Expo, featuring Silent Piece, Severed Fingers, Pam Swarts, Winged Larva, And How!, Blood Funnel, Lifemusik mit Andre, Be Locust or Alone, and Bad Ronald.

INFRINGEMENT CLOSING DAY PARADE & CLOSING CEREMONIES Sunday, August 7 / 8PM Nietzsche’s, 248 Allen Street

Sunday, the final day of the Infringement Festival, will be dominated by Closing Ceremonies and related activities. The Closing Ceremonies is the Infringement Festival artistic debriefing, in a sense. Much of the crowd at this show, which takes place at Nietzsche’s, is made up of artists who vote for their other favorite artists in the form of the Iffy Awards—paper plate and Sharpie award statues, of sorts. Of course, plenty of random infringers show up, too. And there’s also music—an eclectic variety at that. Belle Chapo, FragranceandJuan Cosmic Energy, Touch and Go, Circular Logic, AJ Jordan, and Blue Lazer will all take the stage to kiss the 2016 Infringement Festival goodbye. The ceremony will be preceded by the Infringe on Infringement Closing Day Parade, which begins at 7:45pm and will run from Ol’ Wondermoth to Days Park. If you show up even earlier than that, check out the Holley Farms Mini Megafringe event in the Holley Farms parking lot across the street. -CORY PERLA

Live at Larkin: South Buffalo Night 5pm Larkin Square, 745 Seneca Street free

[ROCK] South Buffalo Night at Larkinville has become a tradition. This year’s edition of South Buffalo Night, Wednesday, August 3, will feature Brian Higgins & the Exchange Street Band, the Stone Bridge Band, and Keith Shuskie featuring John Higgins. It should be a fun one, so don’t miss out. -THE PUBLIC STAFF

5th Harmony 7pm Darien Lake, 9993 S Alleghany Rd $15$145

[POP] It’s been a while since the mainstream pop scene has enjoyed a strong girl band, but 5th Harmony is honorably carrying the torch once held by the likes of the Spice Girls and Pussycat Dolls, boasting female empowerment along the way. Cultivated on The X Factor, these women have released two successful albums and

a handful of chart-topping hits like “Worth It” and “Work From Home.” Catch 5th Harmony with JoJo and Victoria Monet at Darien Lake on Wednesday, August 3. -KP

O.A.R. 6:30pm Artpark, 450 South 4th St. $12-$17

[ROCK] O.A.R.’s (Of a Revolution) music is a charming blend of easy rock and light reggae that plays in the same vein as outfits like Matchbox Twenty, the Fray, and UB40. However, unlike these contemporaries, the Maryland-based quintet rose to fame by garnering a dedicated cult following through relentless concerts and music sharing. By the release of their 2008 album, All Sides, they had become a widespread phenomenon in the rock scene, boasting radio-ready hits like “This Town” and “Shattered.” Their 2013 release, King, waded further into the reggae-punk waters, but with a strong undercurrent of well-constructed hooks. Catch O.A.R. with the Hunts at Artpark on Wednesday, August 3. -KP

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TRITONAL THURSDAY AUG 4 5PM / CANALSIDE, 44 PRIME ST. / FREE-$55 (VIP) [DANCE/ELECTRONIC] Chad Cisneros and David Reed met online and bonded over their appreciation for trance productions and admiration for the genre stars like Tiësto and Ferry Corsten. After a year of online chatting, they took things to the next level and began making music together as Tritonal. This dynamic duo has since been on the rise, with two albums, countless singles and remixes, a 41-city sold-out North American tour, and four Billboard Dance top 10 singles. Their rapid success can be attributed to their mind-blowing live shows and a gold mine of fresh productions—from “Now or Never” and “Anchor” to “Colors” and “Electric Glow.” Their latest, much anticipated release, Blackout, dropped in June 2016 and features the haunting vocal stylings of Steph Jones. Bound by hot-blooded vocals, booming basslines, and melodic swirls, Blackout is tuned somewhere between club-ready euphoria and brightly colored pop. The Texan duo has assembled a well-balanced collection of songs that retain their unique sonic identity, but contains enough experimentation to stay fresh, and will likely boast a lot of great remixes. From the trance core to the bold house and dubstep, Blackout further solidifies Tritonal’s capacity to cultivate striking, emotionally charged melodies. Catch Tritonal at Canalside on Thursday, August, 4. -KELLIE POWELL

FRIDAY AUG 5 Burn the Bridges 6pm Studio Hart, 65 Allen Street

[ART] Burn the Bridges is a new, unique show by Buffalo photographer Max Collins. As he prepares to leave Buffalo for the Pacific Northwest, the show is not only titled ironically—hopefully he won’t be burning any bridges on his way out of town—but it’s also literally about fire. Fires started in public, in fact. The opening reception for Burn the Bridges will take place on Friday at August 5 at Studio Hart in Allentown. The show will run August 5 through August 27. -CP

Texas Hippie Coalition 7pm Town Ballroom, 681 Main St. $15-$18

[ROCK] The Lone Star State’s self-professed purveyors of “red dirt metal,” Texas Hippie Coalition dispense with the more melodic, Southern-fried-friendly aspects of their sound in favor of a something more menacing on much of Dark Side of Black (Carved Records), out last April. Frontman Big Dad Ritch supplies ample aggro-growl, while Timmy Braun (drums) and John Exall (bass) churn out a bottom-end that’ll have the foundation next door trembling. Guitarist Cord Pool is joined on tour with new addition Nevada Romo to deliver twice the six-string crunch. The lead single, “Rise,” is a clear indication of the band’s new direction, but remnants of the red dirt still peak out from beneath the metallic thud with “Knee Deep,” “Shakin’ It Baby,” and “Hit it Again.” Feel the foundation of Town Ballroom rumble when they pull into Buffalo this Friday, August 5, with one-man-wunderkind Scott H. Birham in the opening slot. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

Jared James Nichols 8pm Buffalo Iron Works, 49 Illinois St. $5

[BLUES] With a firm grasp on the blues of the 1950s and 1960s, Jared James Nichols is a human anachronism. Nichols and his Swedish bandmates, Eriik Sandin and Den-

nis Holm, are a force to be reckoned with. Marked by Nichols’s smooth and soulful finger-picking, they boast an earthy sound that plays beautifully live. In concert, the deep connection these guys have to their music makes for a moving experience. Catch Jared James Nichols with special guests at Buffalo Iron Works on Friday, August 5. -KP

Prinze George 10pm Town Ballroom, 681 Main St. $10-$12

[INDIE] Brooklyn by way of Maryland indie-pop trio Prinze George's debut fulllength, Illiterate Synth Pop, sounds much like its satiny, pink-hued balloon cover art looks: warm, alluring, a bit dreamy. The pair of singles released thus far showcase two sides of their electro-musical coin: the contemplative, mournful feel of "Wait Up," and the glitchier, beat-driven "Freeze." Out this Friday after a long windup/pre-order, the group—named after the Maryland county they hail from—will celebrate the disc's release with a gig at the Leopard Lounge in Town Ballroom. Prinze George is Naomi Almquist (vocals that remind of Nicole Atkins), Isabelle De Leon (drums), and Kenny Grimm (production/guitars). -CJT

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[POP] Now well into the second year of touring 2015's Glitterbug (which was initially intended for release on 2014), Liverpudlian dance-pop mavens the Wombats are finally making their way to Buffalo next Monday, August 8, for a gig at the Waiting Room. Key songwriter and frontman Matthew "Murph" Murphy has revealed the blend of fact and fiction at the album's core, admitting that his

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life was running somewhat smoothly when it came time to write new material. Without an intriguing struggle, he had to create a fictitious storyline about angsty LA. The record label didn't like his use of "Vicodin on a Sunday night" as a romantic analogy, but he stuck to his guns and the lyric stayed. In the end, the line (from "Give Me a Try") is just one in a series of memorable comparisons running through an album of catchy pop tunes that never quite sinks into guilty pleasure territory. -CJT

Wedding of the Waters 8pm Canalside, 44 Prime St. free

NIAGARA FALLS LGBT MIXER 5 - 7PM at 24 Below Gallery & Cafe, 435 3rd St., Niagara Falls

Enjoy a relaxed atmosphere with great food, drinks, raffles, and an opportunity to make new friends. The first 25 people receive a drink on the house. Presented by Rainbow City Coalition and Pride Center of WNY, sponsored by Roswell Park Cancer Institute.

THURSDAY AUGUST 4

PRINCE VS. BOWIE DANCE PARTY 9PM - 1AM at Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St.

Infringement Festival hosts a dance party of epic proportions to benefit Dreamland Arts Collective. Four sets of Prince and Bowie, plus themed performances between each set. Costumes and glitter encouraged; dancing required. Cover: $5.

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[PERFORMANCE] In a press release for the Wedding of the Waters, Friends of the Buffalo Story state: “In our continued effort to bring 'The Buffalo Story' to new and different audiences, Wedding tells the story of the construction and the completion of the Erie Canal in a totally contemporary vernacular.” Each Monday in August at 8pm, the Friends of the Buffalo Story will present this original performance piece which tells the story of the Erie Canal. The performances will be held outdoors, at the Ruins and at the Commercial Slip at Canalside. -TPS

8PM / MOHAWK PLACE, 47 E MOHAWK ST. / $5 [INFRINGEMENT] Like two sides of the same coin—or maybe the same side of different coins— Prince and David Bowie were both figures who genuinely empowered their fans to more truly express themselves. The musicians, who died within four months of each other—Prince at the age of 57, more prematurely than Bowie, who died at a still very active 69—had many overlapping characteristics. Both utilized the androgynous aspects of their personality, bodies, and style to break down barriers. Both were hugely talented artists: Prince was considered by many in the music industry as the best living guitarist (he also played every single instrument on his debut album, from wind chimes to bongos), while Bowie boasted a vocal range of 3.58 octaves, which outmatches the likes of John Lennon, Adele, and Freddie Mercury. Bowie was perhaps the better wordsmith and Prince the better instrumentalist. Bowie was also a more prolific collaborator—Prince was known to collaborate more in his later years, but was always more of a lone wolf. The coincidence of their close and untimely deaths means that their music and their legacies will forever be pitted against each other. That’s a good thing for fans like us, because we can look forward to great parties, like the upcoming Prince vs Bowie Epic Dance Party this Thursday, August 4 at Mohawk Place, as part of the Infringement Festival.The party will feature four sets by four DJs who will play Prince and Bowie all night long in between themed performances by local artists. Costumes are encouraged. A portion of the proceeds from this event will benefit Dreamland Gallery. -CORY PERLA

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TUESDAY AUG 9 Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles 4:45pm Artpark, 450 South 4th St. $12-$17

[TRIBUTE] Of all of the tributes to The Beatles, and there are a lot of them, Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles, stands out. More than just a live music concert, the multimedia performance involves video, costumes, and other theatrical elements as well. With such a vast discography, the band can’t possibly play everything, but you can be sure that they’ll give equal attention to all of the Beatles' distinct eras. Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles comes to Artpark on Tuesday, August 9. -TPS

Picnic in the Parkway: Heavenly Chillbillies 7pm Bidwell Park, Elmwood Ave at Bidwell Parkway free

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In time with Buffalo Infringement Festival and Allentown First Fridays Gallery Tour, Allen Street’s newest queer safe space opens its doors for a huge party. The shop will cater to those in the transgender and gender non-conforming communities exploring their fashion sense, and double as Buffalo’s only pride shop. Take a flower crown-making workshop and shop select items at 10 percent off.

Tuesday Night Flix: Jumanji 8:30pm Canalside, 44 Prime St. Free

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[ROCK] The Elmwood Village Association’s free summer concert series, Picnic in the Parkway, comes to a close this Tuesday, August 9 with a performance by the Heavenly Chillbillies. The Heavenly Chillbillies have recently come off of a tour with comedian Kristen Becker dubbed the Loosen the Bible Belt Tour, on which they delivered their foot-stomping brand of honky-tonk rock. -CP

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[FILM] Presented by Catholic Health, Tuesday Night Flix is a free outdoor film series at Canalside. On Tuesday, August 9 the series will feature Joe Johnston’s 1990s family flick, Jumanji. With the rise in technology, the game-gone-wrong concept has undergone a more pixelated horror treatment in recent years. But let’s not forget the true terror that a swarm of wild animals, natural disasters, and a ruthless hunter can bring. Especially when there’s the prospect of becoming trapped in the board game. -KP

2:30 - 6PM at Erie Basin Marina, 79 Marine Dr.

All about the Miss Buffalo II for the Imperial Court of Buffalo’s annual boat cruise. Boarding begins at 2:30 p.m. and the ship disembarks at 3 p.m. sharp. Dry Dock Party at Cathode Ray, 26 Allen St., immediately after. This year’s theme: Pirates of the Niagara. Tickets are $25, and available at Cathode Ray, Fugazi and Underground.

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WEDNESDAY AUG 10 Live at Larkin: Dive House Union and the Jony James Band 5pm Larkin Square, 745 Seneca Street free

[ROCK] Blues-rock bands Dive House Union and the Jony James Band are no strangers to each other. They’ve shared the stage many times and will once again at the next edition of the Live at Larkin concert series in Larkin Square. The concert takes place on Wednesday, August 10, and, as always, is free. -TPS

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[ROCK] Though perhaps slightly downsized from the cusp of superstardom they teetered on a decade back, familial Chicago trio Chevelle maintains a strong mid-sized following that keeps them on the road and regularly producing music for a major label. Their latest LP, The North Corridor, out on Epic in early July, signals a shift in the band’s sonic holding pattern, reaching back to the weightier feel of 2002’s Wonder What’s Next. Started and finished in Illinois at front man Pete Loeffler’s basement home studio (with a trip to Los Angeles in between for sessions with returning producer Joe Barresi), the album does less to straddle the lines between progressive and commercial than the last few, opting instead for a more fully realized, aggressive alt-metal sound that should further cement Chevelle’s spot in the canon of post-grunge bands that continue to matter this many years on. They’ll play the Rapids Theatre in Niagara Falls on Sunday, August 7, with P Black Map. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

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FOOD + DRINK FEATURE some of New Belgium’s offerings, with a focus on the Fat Tire and Friends collaborations. To begin, those sampling tasted the one that started it all for New Belgium, Fat Tire. The group agreed that the beer was sweet, with a malty nose and a similar palate, with sugar and cereal malts standing out. Next to be served was New Belgium’s collaboration with Avery. Fat Wild Ale is a funky, bready version of the original recipe. It had a fruity body with Brett funk and toasty, caramel malt finish. The third selection was Allagash’s Belgian take on Fat Tire. Fat Funk had a kick of Brett C and more horse-blanket than its predecessors. One of the tasters commented that Fat Funk was a sweeter version of the popular Orval beer. PHOTO COURTESY OF NEW BELGIUM BREWING COMPANY

NEW BELGIUM TOASTS BUFFALO BY ERIK WOLLSCHLAGER

DISTRIBUTION BY PIONEERING BREWERY MARKS BUFFALO’S GROWING REPUTATION ON THE NATIONAL CRAFT BEER SCENE AS BUFFALO GROWS in its influence on the national craft beer scene, expanding the list of breweries that distribute in the area is an important watermark. Recently, New Belgium, one of the nation’s pioneering craft brewers, entered the Western New York Market, in a big way. Conceived in 1988, the Fort Collins, Colorado, employee-owned brewery has become one of the industry’s most influential, working diligently with both American craft breweries and international brewmasters to bring beer drinkers unique and interesting beers. Occasionally these offerings are inspired by current trends, but generally it is New Belgium’s innovative takes on traditional brewing styles that they are best known for.

New Belgium’s expansion into Western New York is meaningful. With an exponential rise in craft beer consumption (as well as in craft beer production) over the last five years, bigger, more established breweries are beginning to take no-

tice of the Queen City. The region has several award-winning breweries that it calls its own, and that has a lot to do with breweries taking notice. As New Belgium’s Kyle Cox says, “From the perspective of a beer enthusiast and Western New Yorker, it’s been amazing watching the rise of craft beer in the area recently. In the past several years we’ve seen so many people starting breweries and hop farms, having fun in bars and festivals, and finding unique ways to celebrate our heritage. Beer is more than just a beverage, it’s really a big part of American culture.” Though New Belgium has not been in Buffalo long, they have given plenty to craft beer lovers. Their flagship beer, Fat Tire, is available in most grocers in cans, bottles, six-packs, and four packs. Also available are Ranger, an IPA; Rampant, a double IPA; and Citradelic, New Belgium’s tangerine IPA. Along with these selections, the brewery has issued a special 12-pack with a little help from their friends. Fat Tire and Friends has New Belgium traveling to five breweries across the US and brewing a batch of their famous copper ale, each with a special twist provided by the host brewery. Recently, some local beer lovers sat down at Pizza Plant’s Transit Road location to sample

Our final selection from Fat Tire and Friends was Firestone Walker’s Fat Hoppy Ale. It was a good, old-school IPA with a little bit of a pilsener finish. Nothing flashy, just a good beer.

6933 S Transit Rd, Lockport, nybeerproject.com Congratulations are in order for New York Beer Project’s Jason Crossett, who has been promoted to head brewer at the Lockport brewery. Additionally, he will be directing recipe development, which could take a bold and sour turn in the near future, according to Crossett. “I’m excited for the opportunity to lead the endeavor to create unique and flavorful beers for Lockport,” he says. “In the future you’ll see bold IPAs, fall seasonals, and we’re on the verge of launching our sour program. As a meticulous experimentalist, there is no beer style that I shy away from. I love recipe development, execution and troubleshooting.” Three cheers for Jason!

Coming soon 1372 Clinton St A new brewpub, aptly named the Brew Haus, will soon open its doors on Clinton Street. A group led by Tom Grippo, along with Buffalo architect Michael Anderson, have been given the green light by the Buffalo Planning Board to move forward with renovations to a two-story, 5,423-square-foot building located at 1372 Clinton Street. Tentative plans call for the brewery to use the first floor of the building for its production and tasting room with planned beers including a bitter, IPA, and amber ale. Brew Haus will produce one barrel of beer each week with plans to grow to three barrels. No restaurant is currently planned.

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Also available for tasting was New Belgium’s summer slammer, Heavy Watermelon. The beer was different than other watermelon beers on the market in that it had more of the rind flavor than the fruit of the watermelon. The group decided it was better than the average beer of similar structure. As the tasting came to a close, the group got to try a few selections from New Belgium’s Lips of Faith series. These are a nod to traditional Belgian brewing recipes, with some using sugars from uncommon ingredients such as carrots to feed the yeast in the fermentation process. These were certainly the most interesting selections of the night, and seemed to be enjoyed by everyone at the two tables. It has been a long time coming for New Belgium’s distribution to reach Western New York, and the innovative brewers in the Buffalo area can be proud that it is their hard work that made the region desirable. Cox says there is a lot more to look forward to from New Belgium. “We’re bringing out a Flowering Citrus Ale that is a collab with De Koninck, and we’re going to have Le Terroir, which is our dry-hopped sour, coming in September. Our brewers and cellar folks are running the largest and one of the oldest sour barrel aging programs in the country, and I revel in nerding out about the history and chemistry of these beers. We’ve got Buffalo’s own Dave Glor [former Flying Bison brewer] working with the pilot brewery on styles and ingredients of the future.” With so many great things happening in Buffalo’s brewing industry, and fantastic beers like those New Belgium has brought to the area, there has never been a better time to be a beer lover in Buffalo. A toast to the Queen City, its brewers, and its appreciation for great beer. P

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n SATO BREWPUB Coming soon to 110 Pearl St Another brewpub will be coming to Buffalo in the near future as the owners of Sato and Sato Ramen, Satomi and Joshua Smith, have announced plans to bring the Sato Brewpub to the Dun Building, located at 110 Pearl Street, in the former Soundlab. Community Beer Works’ own Andrew “Drew” Hardin will serve as a beer consultant for the new venture, which will pair “elevated pub food” with Japanese-style beer. Sato Brewpub will feature one flagship beer in addition to several taps of rotating seasonal offerings. Tentative plans call for 60 to 80 seats and a full bar. The goal is to be open by January 2017 P

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THREE DAYS CELEBRATING THE REGION’S DANCE TALENT LET’S BE HONEST, dance isn’t the art form at the

top of most people’s agendas. When arts budgets are cut, dance is usually the first to get downsized. Then there’s the argument that dancers—who are considered artists of movement—aren’t always given the credit they deserve for all the countless hours they sacrifice to choreograph, rehearse, sweat, and endure wear and tear on their entire bodies for the sake of their art. While the dance world seems to be overlooked in general, there are people working to expose the immense talent we have right here in the city of Buffalo. “We all know that arts programming is important in any community, especially in regards to economic development,” Jess Moore, the director of Dance Days of Buffalo, said. “I think dance tends to be an underserved part of the arts as a whole.” Moore, who grew up dancing in Buffalo, came up with the idea to start a three-day dance festival last spring. She wanted to do this not only for the dance community but for all Western New York residents and those in the surrounding areas, so people from all walks of life could come enjoy and be exposed to the art form of dance. “Buffalo in particular has a dance community that’s on the rise,” Moore said. “We don’t have a ton of opportunities in Buffalo that are specific to dance as far as master classes and presenting opportunities, so I think by giving those opportunities to dancers here, it creates an awareness of each other. And then also there’s so many people coming from out of town, it creates a broader awareness of integrating our community with the larger dance community across the state and across the country. Right now no one knows Buffalo has awesome dance, and now they will.” After meeting with several colleagues, dancers, friends, and others she knew could provide insight, she began planning for this time-consuming endeavor last summer. “Jess really is the perfect person to organize an event like this, which is really the first of its kind in Western New York,” Mackenzie Lynch, a belly dance instructor at Oasis Dance Center, said. “You really can’t take on creating something this large without being intelligent, savvy, and, most of all, incredibly passionate about dance and community outreach.” Moore convened with fellow dancers Cortney Costanzo, Mackenzie Lynch, Lauren Ventura and Ellen Shadle to discuss the format of the festival. After months of lengthy discussions, the

core group decided they would send out a call for teachers, local or from out of town, to see who would be willing to teach during the event. They had an overwhelming response of 70 teachers and 120 dance class ideas. The group arranged for a selection committee, consisting of Lynch, Alicia Blasi, Angela Lopez, and the student dance organizations of Buffalo State College and Fredonia University, to review the proposals. In the end they accepted 43 teachers. “I would say it’s pretty well split,” Moore said. “A lot of the local teachers we do have are not the usual suspects. There are a lot of local teachers I don’t think a lot of people are familiar with. I would say about 30 to 40 percent of the teachers are from out of town—as close as Rochester, but as far as New York City.” The wide variety of classes being offered at Dance Days of Buffalo, which will be held each day of the festival for students 16 and up, include world dance forms, such as tribal style dance, Turkish bellydance, African, traditional Jamaican folk forms, dancehall, Bollywood classical dance, and Hispanic folkloric dance. There are also the dance class staples of jazz, ballet, tap, and contemporary and then also some classes you don’t see every day, like burlesque and musical theater. On the hip-hop dance front, which are always popular classes, hip-hop choreography, top rocking, and B-boying will be just a few of the many classes taught. Each day will also start off with either Pilates or yoga. “I think there’s a little bit of everything, but, as you know there’s dance genres I’ve probably never heard of yet,” Moore said. “There’s really a lot going on.” One of the special offerings will be a ballet repertoire class, where students will get the chance to learn an actual segment from a ballet. Dancers will also have the opportunity to get 15 minute massages from the Body Essential Holistic Wellness Center for $15. Other vendors participating include Young Living Essential Oils, Total Life Changes, Bailey Slipper Shop, Indie Twenty Jewelry, Serenitea, and LulaRoe. Breakfast by You Crack Me Up food truck or Daniela’s Catering will be available for purchase each day, and lunches by Ashker’s will be provided to those who purchase three-day or single-day tickets. As far as non-dance classes go, there will be a few presentations for dance educators on the subjects like inclusion in the classroom and injury prevention. There will also be a roundtable-style class and a presentation from Moving Miracles, a nonprofit organization that offers dance classes and performing opportunities to students with special needs.

Each night of the festival there will be a dance performance for everyone in the community to enjoy. “I wanted to give something open to the public or non-dancers to just come and experience dance,” Moore said. “I also wanted to give people here the chance to present work if they want to.” The first night of the festival, on Friday, August 5 at 8pm, will be the Contemporary Choreographers Showcase, which was a curated by Moore. Out of the 24 works submitted, 13 works were chosen. Choreographers presenting their pieces at the showcase include Elise Cruce & Laura Pietak, Hannah Seidel, Rachel Keane, Nakita Moné, Allison Bohman, Kara Mann, Phil Wackerfuss, Ashley Payne, Laura Chubineh, Zachary Frazee, Ashley Vita Verde & Aaron Water, and Holly Simme. For the second night of the festival, on Saturday, August 6 at 8pm, there will be a world dance showcase titled Dance Around the World, which was organized by Lynch, who has studied Egyptian bellydance since her pre-teen years and has a keen interest in furthering quality representations of world dance forms in the Buffalo area. Dance groups involved in this show include Baila Salsa, Clann Na Cara, African American Cultural Center’s Dance & Drum Performance Company, Oasis Binat, Ballroom Revolution, Relativity BellyDance, Sinuous Tribal Fusion Belly Dance, Amor & Heritage Traditional Dance Co., SiSi Nana Dance Ensemble, and Devi Bollywood Dance. “That will be a really fun one,” Moore said of Dance Around the World show. “We have Irish, African, all different forms of bellydance, traditional Burmese dance, and more.” Last but not least, the third night of the festival, on Sunday, August 7 at 8pm, Verve Dance Studio will take over the stage to present their show, Inside Hip Hop. The Differential Flava Crew featuring B-Boy Depree, B-Boy Nashtronaut, B-Girl Resolve, Brooklynn Jay, T.E.I.N., and Centric will present a showcase of all the different styles of hip-hop. They will also educate the crowd on the history and background of the various elements of hip-hop. Ellen Shadle, a former dance company owner in New York City, heard about Moore’s vision to launch a dance festival in Buffalo and immediately reached out to help her. Mostly she assisted Moore with the festival’s budgetary structure, connecting her to Fractured Atlas, an arts service organization that offers fiscal sponsorship to its members. She also gave her some input on the choreographic submissions for the showcases, but otherwise she maintains that Moore did the brunt of the work, which would normally take a “whole team of people.” “There is much warranted attention and celebration to Buffalo’s economic resurgence, and that resurgence should also include attention and energy put towards Buffalo’s cultural health,” Shadle said. “Buffalo has enjoyed a reliably robust presence of professional and reputable theater, music, and visual art for the public to engage in. Quite simply, without a viable presence of professional dance, Buffalo’s cultural ecosystem is not quite complete. The arts’ role in a community is not only recreational but also civic. Dance Days is an expression and celebration of how significant the visibility of dance in Buffalo is.” Dance Days of Buffalo will take place at Tapestry Charter School at 65 Great Arrow Avenue. Tickets for the festival and evening performances can be purchased at dancedaysofbuffalo.com or during the festival. For those interested in volunteering their time to the festival, that information can be found on the website as well. Three-day passes for the festival start at $150 and single-day passes are $50. Tickets for the evening performances are $15 P and $10 for students and seniors.

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FILM REVIEWS

ZAPPA’D EAT THAT QUESTION: FRANK ZAPPA IN HIS OWN WORDS BY M. FAUST GO TO YOUTUBE, type in “Frank Zappa” and ”interview,” and you’ll probably find everything you’ll see in Eat That Question, a documentary constituted entirely of excerpts from TV and internet interviews Frank Zappa gave over the years. The benefit of seeing them in this form is that Thorsten Schutte, a German filmmaker who specializes in music documentaries, has gone though all of them (with the permission of Zappa’s estate) to weed out the repetition and redundancies and compile a more or less chronological look at the musician’s career.

The earliest footage is an appearance that even casual fans have already seen, a 1963 bit from the Steve Allen show in which a conservatively attired and very young Zappa uses a bicycle as a musical instrument. His early career is filled in by reminiscences in which Zappa, who was self-taught as a musician, recalls being exposed to composers like Edgar Varese, Anton Webern, and Igor Stravinsky, who sought to broaden as much as possible what could be considered “music.” But if you don’t already have an appreciation for his brand of musical experimentation, you’re not likely to gain one here. Most of the footage here is from non-mainstream media, primarily public access shows. Zappa wasn’t one to open his soul to interviewers; he usually spoke because he had axes to grind as part of his lifelong war against the music industry and what he saw as the forces of repression. The result is that he seems crabby through most of the film, only lightening up in short performance clips. It’s fair to say that a large part of Zappa’s audience was drawn to him less for his music than for his scatological and sexually explicit lyrics, which took glee in offending those who could be offended. It would take an objective observer to conclude to what extent Zappa was goading bluenoses and how much he was pandering to audiences that were unlikely to appreciate his music for its own merits. A documentary in the works by Alex Winter may do that, but Schutte makes no such attempt: Per the title, he simply lets Zappa talk. A little context would certainly have helped, such as explaining why Zappa in one clip is being interviewed by what appears to be an American Nazi. And there are areas of interest, such as his work with “outsider” artists like Wild Man Fisher, that are apparently unmentioned because no one ever asked him about them. If you’re a fan, P though, it’s a must see. Opens Friday at the Eastern Hills Mall.

AT THE MOVIES A selective guide to what’s opening and what’s playing in local moviehouses and other venues

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OPENING THIS WEEK EAT THAT QUESTION: FRANK ZAPPA IN HIS OWN WORDS—Documentary about the iconoclastic musician compiled from filmed interviews he gave throughout his career. Directed by Thorsten Schütte. Reviewed this issue. Dipson Eastern Hills NINE LIVES—Kevin Spacey as a workaholic businessman who learns to value his family when he becomes trapped inside the body of his daughter’s pet cat. With Jennifer Garner and Christopher Walken. Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in Black 3). Area theaters SUICIDE SQUAD—Comic book villains get to fight for the good side in exchange for reduced prison sentences. Starring Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Ike Barinholtz, Viola Davis, and Jared Leto. Directed by David Ayer (Fury). AMC Maple Ridge, Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker Crossing, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Sunset Drive-In, Transit Drive-In

ALTERNATIVE CINEMA BETTER OFF DEAD… (1985) and ONE CRAZY SUMMER (1986)—John Cusack’s mopey charms were first best displayed in these two endearingly goofy comedies from writer-director-animator Savage Steve Holland. With Curtis Armstrong, Demi Moore, Diane Franklin, and Bobcat Goldthwait. Tue 9pm. Transit Drive-In

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BEYOND THE SEA—Premiere of a locally-made short film shot aboard the USS Croaker submarine at the Buffalo and Erie County Naval and Military Park. Directed by Vinny DiVirgilio and Andrew Dale. The screening is free and open to the public. Sun 11:30am. North Park LAURA (1944)—It’s not truly film noir—director Otto Preminger was never one to hew too closely to genre restrictions—but it’s still one of the oddest movies to come out of Hollywood. Dana Andrews is the police detective unhealthily attracted to murder victim Gene Tierney, and they’re the relatively normal characters among Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, and Judith Anderson. Fri, Sat, Wed 7:30pm. Screening Room “HYPNOSIS BY A DIFFERENT NAME”—Program of experimental films by Mary Helena Clark, who will be in attendance. Presented by Squeaky Wheel. Fri 7pm. Sugar City, 1239 Niagara St squeaky.org MYBRID CINEMA: MICHAEL A. MORRIS—A program of experimental films from the Dallas-based artist, inspired by the rapid changes in how moving images are created and experienced in the 21st century. Presented by Squeaky Wheel. Wed Aug 3 7pm. Hallwalls STUART LITTLE (1999)—M. Night Shyamalan adapted the screenplay from E. B. White’s much-loved children’s book about a mouse (voiced by Micahel J. Fox) who becomes a member of a human family. Starring Geena Davis, High Laurie, and Jeffrey Jones. Directed by Rob Minkoff (Mr. Peabody and Sherman). Sun 11:30am. North Park A TOUCH OF ZEN (Taiwan, 1971)—Long before Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, there was King Hu’s wuxia epic, recently the subject of a long overdue 4k restoration. A must-see. Thu Aug 4 7pm Dipson Amherst

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CONTINUING ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS: THE MOVIE—Is it any better than any given episode of the British comedy series that began in 1992? No, but that’s good enough, at least for its fans, though newcomers who think that all Britcoms are like the ones they see on PBS are likely to be surprised at the gleeful meanness. Trying to find a new source of funding to support their partying lifestyle, Patsy (Joanna Lumley, whose agelessness has become a ghoulish joke) and Edina (creator/ writer creator/writer Jennifer Saunders) hide out in the south of France after possibly killing Kate Moss. That anyone in the world still cares about Kate Moss (or ever did) is exactly the joke, though most of London’s glitterati is eager enough to show they’re in on it by making cameos in the film. All of the original cast is on hand, including All of the original cast is back, including daughter Saffy (Julia Sawalha), assistant Bubble (Jane Horrocks), and clueless mum June Whitfield. Directed by Mandie Fletcher. —MF Dipson Amherst BAD MOMS—Coming soon: Bad Father-in-Law, Bad Maiden Auntie, and Bad Dutch Uncle. Starring Mila Kunis, Kathryn Hahn, Kristen Bell, Christina Applegate, and Jada Pinkett Smith. Directed by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker Crossing, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Sunset Drive-In, Transit Drive-In THE BFG—Steven Spielberg has re-teamed with E.T. screenwriter Melissa Mathison for the slick big screen adaptation of Roald Dahl’s children’s book The BFG (Big Friendly Giant), and has spent a great deal of Disney dollars playing with CG, perspective, and a large number of anthropomorphic creatures. Like E.T., Dahl’s story pairs a human child (this time a girl) with an amazing creature (now a giant, but a small one bullied by his larger peers). The film is uneven but never uninteresting to watch, with

Spielberg employing his full bag of cinematic tricks, often in an artificial world. For a good bit of the film’s running time I found the photo-realistic effects distracting and longed for the more primitive, hand-hewn tricks of King Kong, The Three Worlds of Gulliver, and even The Indian in the Cupboard, but ultimately I had to admit the effects were quite astonishing, and Spielberg’s use of 3D is the best I’ve seen since Hugo, especially in scenes with human beings conversing on existing sets. BFG didn’t really work for me until its second half, in which Sophie (Ruby Barnhill) takes her BFF (recent Oscar winner Mark Rylance in an amazing motion capture performance) to the queen’s palace; at this point, gentle whimsy gives way to outright farce. You’ve never seen cinematic mass flatulence until you’ve seen it choreographed by Spielberg in 3D. Kids will love The BFG, and adults will appreciate the way Spielberg conducts his orchestra of technical wizards. Co-starring Penelope Wilton and Jemaine Clement. —Gregory Lamberson Four Seasons, Lockport Palace (STARTS FRI) CAPTAIN FANTASTIC—How far would you as a parent go to protect your children from the evils of the world? Probably not as far as Ben (Viggo Mortensen), who with his wife raised their six kids completely away from society, deep in a forest in the Pacific Northwest. Those kids’ first contact with the world as they travel to their mother’s funeral is the focus of this movie written and directed by Matt Ross. (Was he inspired by the years he spent playing polygamist cult leader Alby Grant on the HBO series Big Love?) It’s an intriguing subject for a drama, maybe even too much so: Despite a running time of nearly two hours (which zip quickly by), you come away wishing that there was more to it. But Mortensen is ideally cast as a man who is both physically and intellectually capable of carry out his task, yet unable to see the damage he is doing to his family along the way. With Kathryn Hahn, Steve Zahn, and Frank Langella. —MF Area theaters

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WHAT SHALL WE NAME IT? BY CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY “I THINK WE SHOULD DIAL THIS BACK A LITTLE.”

My experience with dialing things back told me such measures are useless. But since he wasn’t asking me to leave, which had happened once before, I humored him by seeming open to suggestion. “Dial it back how?” “I dunno, this feels too intense. I feel all this pressure on me. I don’t want to be involved with you like this—not you or anyone else. I want to go back to just seeing you. Or dating, or whatever.” In the couple months that Bipolar Dougie and I had been acquainted, we’d spent 85 percent of our time lolling in bed, fooling around and watching movies on his ridiculously large TV. It was a metal poster bed and thus provided excellent leverage. It had been exorbitantly expensive—more money than I’d ever dream of spending on a bed. So I considered myself lucky to be able to spend time in, on, and (under?) around it. That was mistake number umpteen: I was not lucky to meet Doug, not lucky to spend time in his bed, not lucky to be having this conversation. I was vaguely aware of all that, but I was too busy listening to his voice, rather than to my own annoying inner one. His was a seductive, native New Orleans drawl. It was painfully difficult to focus on anything else. Somehow I managed to eke out something reasonably truthful. “Really, Doug? You want to get dressed up and meet me for nice dinners that you’ll end up paying for? After work when you’re cranky and exhausted? You want to attend lectures with me, or maybe go to concerts where you’ll hear all those shrill songwriters I love? You want to bring me out to your work-related events? Because, I have to tell you: I can’t picture it. That’s just not the type of guy you are, and it’s not the type of thing we have going on here.”

straight to the poster bed with nothing much in between. We got to know each other while rolling around, holed up in his lair for three days at a time. How could we become less than the not much we were to begin with? Dating was so much more than what we were doing, he was ill prepared to deal with it. Perhaps we both were. In his defense, there was an intensity to our involvement that was mutually confusing and left me much sadder about its eventual demise than I ever would’ve suspected. What we were up to was something like serial sex with a dollop of friendship. But we weren’t really friends. There was something too terribly selfish at play on both sides. Men I’ve known along the way have reacted badly to intensity. (Sorry, guys, sex is intense.) Add in a little domesticity and they really freak out. After he’d spent the night at my place once, I made dinner for an AA friend at his place and spent the night there a week later. But the Netflix-and-chill model was too much for him, despite our having known each other for at least a year. In the morning, he sent me off with the news that spending time with me like that made him feel as if we were married. Now he is married. Go figure. One of the hardest lessons I learned about my sexuality in my early 20s was that gay men didn’t feel beholden to their partners the way heterosexuals seemed to. Most of us didn’t commit, had myriad intimacy issues, and would rather spend our time searching for the next hot, meaningless encounter. It seemed so unfair, nasty, and unfeeling to me—but that’s what I was presented with, so I made do. Now, the status quo is about finding “the one.” Family life. Joint pension plans. It’s turned us about-face. And yet we have no models for gay dating, only heterosexual ones: a shared malted at the pharmacy counter, a movie, some petting in the car if you’re lucky. Many of us are stuck between these two worlds—the old fuck-andrun routine of yore vs. the go-steady-and-shack-up trend of today. Too many gay men seem not to understand what dating really is, what it entails. I don’t mean to imply that there’s anything wrong, necessarily, with not doing it. Making a simple dinner for someone at home always seemed like a nice compromise between a proper date and something less anxiety-producing to me, but it apparently felt too intimate to others. Frequently, I find that perceptions differ between men as to what it is they’re doing together. Are you fuck buddies? Are you seeing each other? Dating? Is he your boyfriend? Your lover? Are you two in a relationship? Does that mean you’re monogamous? How does the third guy play into this? Oh, that’s not a guy?

For the moment, I’d beaten him into submission. He had no response ready, so the debate petered out in favor of another cult horror flick and some poster bed leverage. Crisis averted. For a variety of reasons, I wanted things to stay the same: the bed, the gluttonous snacks, the sexy Southern accent, the movies. Life in pajamas. I was miserable, and this was a good distraction.

In 2006, I joined Facebook. In the decade since, I’d never once felt it necessary to change my relationship status. But after a few months of recent date nights and sleepovers with the same person, the issue came up. It made me instantly uncomfortable, mainly because of these confusing perceptions—one man’s relationship is another man’s meaningless fling. It seemed easier to avoid making any sort of public declaration, but the other party (who I now call my boyfriend) was insistent.

Dougie wanted to dial back to something that never existed. We’d never dated. We’d gone from being introduced at a holiday meal

“Why don’t we go with ‘it’s complicated’ since it doesn’t reveal very much?”

We settled on “in an open relationship” because that best fits the actual circumstances, but none of the options seemed 100 percent correct, which is frustrating, especially given that you can customize your gender identity. Seems like customizing your relationship status on Facebook would also be a worthwhile concession, but apparently not. Maybe there’s a concern about stalkers declaring unwanted love to cowering recipients. This question of what terms are appropriate to describe different types of liaisons puts the personality disorders of certain men into high relief. You’ve probably known someone who thinks he’s dating when he’s doing a Dougie—inviting someone over to watch TV and fool around. After the third or fourth time, an argument breaks out over the difference in perception, thus ending the tryst altogether, and he’s left all butt-hurt because he thinks he got dumped. Thing is, it’s not really dating if you never leave the house, and you can’t get dumped if you were never really together. Not that long ago, I had an on-again, off-again text volley going with a man in New England. We’d been cyber acquaintances for about six years. When I noticed communication had died off for an unusual amount of time, I sent a more pressing note. “U ok?” “I was away over the weekend with my new partner, got back last night.” About a month earlier I’d inquired if he was seeing anyone and he’d said no. So, a new partner had emerged, fully realized, in about three weeks. You might have a new partner in business, but you don’t just find a new partner in romance. Partner denotes something very serious, something that takes time to develop and has a solid foundation, not something that happens in three weeks. “That was fast.” He seemed not to understand what I meant, thinking I was referring to the length of time he’d been single this go-round, not the magical Grow a New Partner kit he’d ordered from China in the couple weeks since we’d last corresponded. Over the next hour, I got accused of all sorts of awful things—whining, patronizing, sending mixed signals, coming across hot and cold, not knowing what I want, forcing my ideas on other people, not knowing what love is, and so on. One thing he couldn’t accuse me of, however, was not knowing how to contextualize our interaction. That, apparently, was his issue. “We just had our first lover’s quarrel and we haven’t even heard each other’s voices or met.” Pardon? Are you completely psychotic? Didn’t you say you’re in mental health? How had I not seen your crazy so clearly before? Then he told me he’d keep reading my columns, “cuz you’re good, Kid.” Is that my door prize, my consolation for our big fallout? Dude, I’d P rather have the lifetime supply of Turtle Wax.

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An almost private slice of the river shared with Stinger’s Marina, for an area short on waterfront dining options, Eddie’s goes above and beyond. Pub food with seafood features and live music on weekends.

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The time-capsule bar inside the Holy Name of Jesus Croatian Fraternal Union Lodge #557, or simply the Cro, opens over the weekend for beers and slivovitz.

Breakfast sandwiches start at $1.99.

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4 SUZY Q’S / 2829 NIAGARA ST

6 RIVERSIDE CAFE / 800 TONAWANDA ST

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Homegrown restaurant serving Thai and Burmese comfort food by eager-to-please staff. Whatever your order, finish with the mango ice cream.

5 CROATIAN CLUB / 226 CONDON AVE

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Like the neighborhood around it, not much has changed about this place in decades; you’ll get treated like family while eating some of the best BBQ in WNY.

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Connected to Riverside Park by a pedestrian bridge where the river splits around Grand Island, the riverwalk trail is a highlight the area’s bikeways and waterfront access.

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Designed by Olmsted’s firm after his retirement, the park that sits on a bluff overlooking the Niagara River on Buffalo’s northwest corner will host this weekend’s VegFest.

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1 RIVERSIDE PARK / 2607 NIAGARA ST

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Get out and explore the Riverside Park neighborhood and VegFest...

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“No, that has a negative connotation,” he told me.

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